Soul

In novels in general - and also on the television - we do live in a world where bodies is what we are. We do not talk about the spirit or the soul, and there is a sense that we no longer talk about beliefs, either Freudian or Marxist.

I don't know of a soul who packed more living into 72 years than Charles Lindbergh did.

I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music.

My biggest challenge is cooking traditional French dishes, which usually require very specific techniques and methods. That's just not my style... I cook from the soul.

At some point, a flash of sustained clarity reveals the difference between what someone would have you believe is true, and what you know from the depths of your own heart to the peaks of your soul to be true. What happens after that is up to you.

If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly and lone and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors.

I wish I came from a more pure place. I don't have something to say from the bottom of my soul. I just know how to take stuff I like and repackage it in a slightly different way.

Even papists could not see that a moral evil was detained in the soul through its physical connection with the body, and that it required the dissolution of this physical connection before the moral contagion could be removed.

That aesthetic of the Star Wars universe: the do-it-yourself, hotrod ethic that George Lucas exported from his childhood, is exactly the same kind of soul behind what we do and build for the show. It may not look pretty, but it gets the job done.

Because it appears to me a hazardous thing to exchange my soul for my shadow.

Sometimes with pop music, you have to see it to love it. With soul music, it's sparse. There's nothing that's pretentious or planned. It's just so gutsy.

The only way you can influence your fate is to put your soul into your performance and hope it registers with the audience.

O, my past years in Rangoon are spectres to haunt my soul, and they seem to laugh at me as they shake the chains they have riveted on me.

I care what my reader thinks. There is no fancy recommendation you can give me that would matter to me as much as Mary Jane from Youngstown writing me a letter. There is not one. Don't need it, don't want it, don't require it, does not fill up my soul. It's about her, not about the rest of it.

Soul lyrics, soul music came at about the same time as the civil rights movement, and it's very possible that one influenced the other.

Honor is the inner garment of the Soul, the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.

I don't think I do have a soul.

If you're understood in maybe, I don't know, 60% of your soul by your partner, that's fantastic. Don't expect that it's going to be 100%. Of course you will be lonely.

I think sexuality is a window into someone's soul.

There's a charm, there's a rhythm, there's a soul to Jewish humor. When I first saw Richard Pryor perform, I told him, 'You're doing a Jewish act.'

My aunty says I'm the double of my father. He was a workaholic, which I've definitely inherited. And like me, he could be the life and soul of the party, but also quite withdrawn.

If you take something out of the freezer, it's cold, but what happens when it melts? It's a cool party, a cool person, a cool collection. What does that mean? I'm more interested in things that are uncool, things that have a certain individuality, a certain soul, a certain longevity, emotion, fragility.

The Bible, as a revelation from God, was not designed to give us all the information we might desire, nor to solve all the questions about which the human soul is perplexed, but to impart enough to be a safe guide to the haven of eternal rest.

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

True religion is real living, living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.

Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

My fate cannot be mastered, it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul, I am only its noisiest passenger.

Manhattan is like Beverly Hills. And the soul of New York has moved to Brooklyn, where everything new and exciting seems to be.

I am prepared to believe that a dry martini slightly impairs the palate, but think what it does for the soul.

When I have been exposed to so many films that are so bad, my soul gets crushed. I just feel intoxicated.

People say I am mad. I am not mad. I am trying to heal my soul.

Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles.

A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.

My parents know how passionate I've always been about acting. I convinced them this was something that I was going to put my heart and soul into.

When you watch a movie, you don't want to feel like a machine made it. You want to feel a soul.

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll, charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other.

With music, you're really showing someone a piece of your soul. You're saying, 'This is mine. I wrote this, I made this, I'm performing this. This is how I'm presenting it to you.' There's something really scary about that, but there's also something next-worldly about it, too.

My mantra is: Let there be happiness in my soul, and let me share it with the world.

Tears are the summer showers to the soul.

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.

Women and men in the crowd meet and mingle, Yet with itself every soul standeth single.

Right away I think of two books - 'Wuthering Heights' and 'Rebecca' - and of just sinking into them as a young reader. I think they must have appealed not just to my romantic adolescent soul, but I suppose there's also an appealing darkness in both of them.

As far as a glass ceiling, I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that's fine. But even if you don't quote-unquote make it, you're fine if you've given it your whole heart and soul.

It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.

Soul music is timeless.

Stevie Wonder's records introduced me to '70s soul when I was 12 or 13.

My style of singing has always been referred to 'soul' singing when it fact it's more influenced by English R&B Blues Shouting. I'm closer to Led Zeppelin as a vocalist than to Ella Fitzgerald. It was torture dealing with major labels.

My soul desires a pre-industrial world, and since I can't have that, I don't really care for anything material.

Of all the soul divas, Gladys Knight was the one for me. Knight's always been about tone and heart, none of the big showboating or extraneous doodling. She nailed a melody and only played a little around the edges like Ma Staple.

There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.

What I like is when you can hear the heart and soul of music and can feel the energy coming out of it, because that's what it's like when you drive.

At noon, on the Fourth of July, 1826, while the Liberty Bell was again sounding its old message to the people of Philadelphia, the soul of Thomas Jefferson passed on, and a few hours later John Adams entered into rest, with the name of his old friend upon his lips.

Inspired by the purse rather than the soul, the mercenary side fairly screams in many of the works put out by every day American publishers.

In hip-hop, I wasn't very focused on delivering a message. It was just a string of lines that didn't connect. What I wanted to do is write stories... and affect someone's emotions with that song. I think as a soul singer, I'm able to accomplish that.

Salsa, classic rock, soul music, jazz... all of that was a part of my education in making hip-hop music.

Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel. When you hear a song and you're acting it's incredible. But when you're singing a song and you're acting it's even more incredible.

I think there's a part when you sign your soul to the devil and start working in Los Angeles that you also sign away that you could be a human being in anyone's eye. You're like a robot!

Genius - to know without having learned, to draw just conclusions from unknown premises, to discern the soul of things.

There is no such thing as disappointment for those who continue to cherish the selflessness of which is born the noblest inner self. There is no such thing as failure for those who invest in the potentialities of the Ideal of the Soul.

To be sure, we would not allow the world, if we can help it, to peep into our soul, much less to enter it. Our No-Man's-Land is hedged about with a wire entanglement of insincerities. And often we take refuge in a temperament, a pose, or a mystic mood.

I can relate to soul, R&B... whatever people want to call me is fine. I just hope it makes them feel something.

The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.

Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.

I think there's a void for some authentic soul music with an edge. I think there's some people who grew up with Motown and Stevie Wonder that still can appreciate Future, Drake, and all these different things, too, but there shouldn't be a void for those people, as well.

I still love finding the soul of the characters I play and defining who they are. This to me is my paint set, and the colors are always exciting to choose.

I really like jazz and soul, but I also love so many other types of music, and I didn't want to be afraid to blend and experiment.

Musically, I try not to box things in. I try to just play around this spectrum of influences: soul, jazz, and hip-hop.

Soul music is true to its name. It's music that connects to your soul, your spirit. When music resonates with people's spirit like that, when people can emotionally connect with something or it helps to heal them, transform them, that never goes out of style. People will always need something to relate to.

Whichever chord progressions move me, whether it's rock, jazz, doo-wop or soul, I'm going to put it together and not be worried about whether people can put it in a lane or not.

Sin is whatever obscures the soul.

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

From our ugliness will grow the soul of the world.

Your face makes my soul want to eat chocolate pudding!

For film and games, there is now a fantastic method of actors portraying characters which don't necessarily look like themselves. And yet you've still got the heart and soul of the performance.

In the early days, I was everything to David. I was his creative partner, his lover, his soul mate.

Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.

Comparison is a thug that robs your joy. But it's even more than that - Comparison makes you a thug who beats down somebody - or your soul.

Pick up a yardstick to measure your life against anyone else's, and you've just picked up a stick and beaten up your own soul.

Every time your picture is taken, you lose a part of your soul.

Suffer not thy wrongs to shroud thy fate, But turn, my soul, to blessings which remain.

O Lord have mercy on me, to God I commend my soul.

To Jesus Christ I commend my soul, Lord Jesus, receive my soul.

Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?

I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul.

Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.

Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul.

I remember hearing someone say that good acting is more about taking off a mask than putting one on, and in movie acting, certainly that's true. With the camera so close, you can see right down into your soul, hopefully. So being able to do that in a way is terrifying, and in another way, truly liberating. And I like that about it.

My dear friend Jimmie Dodd was the heart and the soul of The Mickey Mouse Club.

Nothing but an imperious intellectual and moral necessity can drive into doubt a religious mind, for it is as though an earthquake shook the foundations of the soul, and the very being quivers and sways under the shock.

Buddhism notes that it is always a mistake to think your soul can go it alone.

I sometimes find the surface interesting. To say that the mark of a good portrait is whether you get them or get the soul - I don't think this is possible all of the time.

I have a calling in my soul, if you like, to try to make my life in some way worthwhile. What is the value of my existence?

I've had my share of dark days of the soul. I try not to focus on it too much so it doesn't get to me.

You know, I would say that songwriting is something about the expression of the heart, the intellect and the soul.

James Dean was always a tortured soul.

You have to feed your soul and spirit, but you also have to be a professional and remember the business that you're in. Everything is not your passion project.

Listen, I think movies serve many different purposes, from those movies that are frivolous and just an entertainment, to movies that just go to exploring the complexities of the human soul. Everything is valid if it's done with honesty and dignity, and I actually do both of those types of movies in my career.

Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - and the soul of a people.

The soul... may have many symbols with which it reaches toward God.

Variety is the soul of pleasure.

Pythagoras said that medicine is the most godlike of arts. But if the most godlike, it should tend to the soul as well as the body, or else a living thing must be unhealthy, being diseased in its higher part.

If a song's about something I've experienced or that could've happened to me it's good. But if it's alien to me, I couldn't lend anything to it. Because that's what soul is all about.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

The soul never thinks without a picture.

To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked, for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number, for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.

Regrets and recriminations only hurt your soul.

The battle is on, and nothing less than the soul of America is at stake.

I think, being from east Tennessee, you're kinda born with a little lonesome in your soul, in your blood. You know you've got that Appalachian soul.

When I sing, I go somewhere else. Every time after I sing, I'll ask, 'Did I do OK?' Because I feel like it's like my soul squeezing out of my vocal chords. I don't sit there and think about 'I'm gonna do this next...' I just sing. I sing from my heart, and my heart's got a little lonesome in it.

You put your heart and soul into something and it makes you a little bit vulnerable.

I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to its poetry. I see polarization, reductionism and superficiality.

R&B is the one thing that has influenced every kind of music. Every artist that there is, from those that are sung the most to Adele - you know, she was so influenced by so many R&B artists and soul music - it's clear in her writing that that's where it comes from.

He Who is your Lord, the All-Merciful cherisheth in His heart the desire of beholding the entire human race as one soul and one body.

Yes, it was love at first sight. I feel that after all these years, I have finally found my soul mate.

No one could understand the bond between me and my brother. I struggled to understand the forces that drove his soul in one direction and mine in another.

From the moment I went to Hollywood for the first time, I was accused by various people of selling out. So I feel I've done my sell-out films already. I've sold everything! I've sold every piece of soul I ever had!

Somewhere in your career, your work changes. It becomes less anal, less careful and more spontaneous, more to do with the information that your soul carries.

Acting is a bit of a heart and soul exercise with me. It's kind of all I've got.

The beast for me is greed. Whether you read Dante, Swift, or any of these guys, it always boils down to the same thing: the corruption of the soul.

The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.

Every soul deserves a shot at a Cadillac, but not everyone should be guaranteed a Cadillac.

I'm actually doing what I like doing, which is mixing opera music and classical music with soul and folk. And I was writing and talking about what I've actually experienced, and I don't think that's very common.

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

Jesus meets the physical needs of kids but also tells them how to save their soul.

I loved Mal Evans holding one note down on You Won't See Me from Rubber Soul.

Because when God heals a body, that is temporal, but when God saves a soul, that has eternal importance.

My name is Bernard Jeffrey McCullough, but people know me as Bernie Mac. My mama, God rest her soul - she used to call me Beanie. Used to say, 'Don't you worry about Beanie. Beanie gonna be just fine. Beanie gonna surprise everyone.'

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

I've never had a very quiet voice. I tried in choir to make it smaller, and it just didn't work out. And I listened to a lot of soul music when I was growing up on my own accord. But I was mostly into Mama Cass and Gladys Knight, and they all had big voices too, just different than mine.

I've just put my heart and soul in a song and need at least a week to recover.

I completely believe that the 'Saw' movies do have heart and soul and morals and values.

The voice of women has a special role and a special soul force in the struggle for a nonviolent world.

This is not the time to marry. My country is calling me. I have taken a vow to serve the country with my heart and soul.

I'm very moved by chaos theory, and that sense of energy. That quantum physics. We don't really, in Hindu tradition, have a father figure of a God. It's about cosmic energy, a little spark of which is inside every individual as the soul.

Definitely just growing up in general influenced me, Detroit happened to be where I was. I feel like the city definitely has made an impact on my life and made me who I am. Detroit has an unmistakable soul - nobody can duplicate the soul we bring to the game. From Motown to J Dilla to Eminem to anything.

Music makes your soul feel amazing while you're performing it.

My feeling is, personally, I want to die first... because I believe that when you die, your soul goes immediately up for judgment - and I don't want my wife up there first. No, the judgment will be horrendous.

Art is, for me, the process of trying to wake up the soul. Because we live in an industrialized, fast-paced world that prefers that the soul remain asleep.

When people wear shoes that don't fit them, it says something about their soul. Generally, I think it means they are good people.

That's the thing about jazz: it's free flowing, it comes from your soul.

Bud Johnson, God rest his soul of fame, a tenor saxophonist. Bud was always a big, big, big booster of mine and he always when I first met Bud in Pittsburgh when he came through there, he heard me sing and he wanted me to come to Chicago.

Suppose you could gain everything in the whole world, and lost your soul. Was it worth it?

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn't concerned with labels, he is concerned about the state of man's soul.

When you really want a role, you just put your soul in it.

All people have dignity. There's nobody who was born without a soul and a spirit.

The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.

When I'm in a relationship, I give my heart and soul to it and do it 100 percent.

You know, you hear people talk about soul mates? That one person that you see, and that's it for you? Well, TOMS is the business equivalent of a soul mate for me.

I don't read critics, and I don't care what they say. You can't let them steal your soul. You do what the director and production is committed to doing. I just think it's terrible that critics have the power to keep people away from a good production.

I'm sick of giving creeps money off my soul.

Soul travel can be a general expansion of awareness and knowingness or conscious experience of the heavenly worlds.

The heart and soul of the company is creativity and innovation.

Don't gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold.

May God bless Trayvon Martin's soul, his family.

It is my fondest wish that the gift of song that God has given me will flow from my soul to yours and help ease any burden that might weigh upon you.

People think you have to go through a lot of changes to become a soul singer, You just have to go through life.

I can take all the negative energy and turn it into a positive simply by purging my soul through music. That's how powerful music can be.

Mr. Brad Delp. J'ai une ame solitaire. I am a lonely soul.

As a teenager, my dad taught me about the idea of unintended consequences, and I've had the experience, and how to deal with it, pounded into my soul over the years.

Surrender the vert platonic bond tying your soul to mine craft, the sky fades a pink shadow cast.

Synthesizers were looked at as stealing the soul of music, but then there were these new bands who used it to contradict that idea.

You can create some soul out of something that's electronic or mechanical.

Maybe stories are just data with a soul.

I'm an old soul. The blues, especially older blues, is the human element that kind of gives the music soul, and I think that maybe not enough people connect to the blues. It's a very powerful place to be, and if you can express that to an audience, I think that you can express a lot through that.

Corporations have been killing the risk-taking and exploration that makes software great. They have tried to rip the soul out of development.

I really do love bluesy-jazzy music, so I love Etta James, B.B. King and Billie Holiday. I love that they have soul in their voices - I think that's something important is having.

I don't deal well with being told what to wear and sit on a mark. It just feels like my soul is being ripped out.

My soul is not my own any more. I cannot live like I want to. I am going to give up films.

Goodness, that Simon Cowell is a sensitive soul.

Enthusiasm is the energy and force that builds literal momentum of the human soul and mind.

I've always been a little bit cautious about what projects I step into. I don't mean to be dramatic, but I feel that every single thing you do in life, you give a piece of your soul, and I want to be responsible with that.

I usually listen to various kind of singers. Curtis Mayfield was my favorite. James Brown, Tina Turner, queen of soul, I started to get that musical essence from that time before I even do my first song.

I'm just going to go live life. I'm going to go enjoy life. I have nothing left to hide. I am kind of a free person, a free soul.

Sexuality is who you are personally attracted to... But gender identity is who you are in your soul.

I'm a rock singer, but I love soul, I love blues, and I love theatrical stuff, too, like theatrical rock like Queen and Meat Loaf.

Any song I do, I put my heart and soul into and, as an artist, you can only hope it makes other people feel the way you feel when making it.

When you do a thing with your whole soul and everything that is noble within you, you always find your counterpart.

'Honor in the Dust' is less about the freedom of the Philippines than the soul of the United States.

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

There is no person that love cannot heal, there is no soul that love cannot save.

I know I don't own Big Bird, but I own his soul, I feel.

My soul is not for sale.

Here rests the soul of our nation - here also should be our conscience.

As liberty and intelligence have increased the people have more and more revolted against the theological dogmas that contradict common sense and wound the tenderest sensibilities of the soul.

Cinema is still a very young art form with extraordinary techniques and very impressive special effects but sometimes it seems the soul has been taken out of things.

I beg you take courage, the brave soul can mend even disaster.

I was lucky enough to grow up in a house where we listened to all kinds of music. We listened to Haitian, hip hop, soul, classical jazz, gospel and Cuban music, to name a few. When you have access to that as a child, it just opens up your world.

The records that I like, they have life and warmth and soul in them. Like the slap back on Scotty Moore's guitar on 'Mystery Train.' You're not gonna get that in a computer. You're gonna want a live room, you're gonna wanna bounce the tape, you're gonna want real musicians, in a room, vibin' off of each other.

To have another language is to possess a second soul.

Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.